Back in the day when ‘Lads Mags’ were all the rage, a rather misguided, attention-seeking editor on one of the most popular magazines for young men at the time, decided that it would be cool to compile a list of the top 100 best dressed men of all time. Right at the top, he’d elected to put Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, the Desert Fox and Field Marshall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, because he had real style and a natty wardrobe. Leather trench coats and shiny, knee-high leather boots were in vogue amongst London’s ‘Artocracy’ at the time, so he afforded Rommel a full page, all to himself.
The public backlash was huge, and the editor in question quickly realised that he had scored a home-goal of epic proportions. His readership disappeared overnight and he was thrown to the publishing
